i see. her sign off gags usually have a bizarro world feel to them, this explains if not excuses.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
"I said Biggie Smalls"
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Those high fives were grim also
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
I watched Only Connect before and one of the teams was called The Poptimists
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 January 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
OC cupwinner's cup is barely entertaining - it's far too difficult for us mortals.
This is how I feel about Champions League Popmaster as well. I've stopped listening to it. I never get a question right.
We did abysmally on OC last night. Our worst performance in ages.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
i remember shouting answers at the tv last night, can't remember whether it was OC or UC.
i live alone, there is no reason to shout anything.
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
We did abysmally on OC last night.
Surely kbrady got Cadabra for 5? Privileges removed if he didn't get it at Backrub.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
No, he never gets those ones. But then he gives you loads of ancillary facts AFTER the question, to prove that he really did know it, and then you miss the next question, and then we have a row.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
Shocked, I tell you.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
That team on UC last night is incredibly terrible at high fiving, but they look like they will be pretty tough to beat.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
They're a bit of a one man team, but that one man is kind of shit hot at it. I think the guys who decided to make stars of Monkman and Seagull are trying to wedge him in to all of that stuff.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
this lad (who also has an issue with high fives funnily enough) is still the one to beat imo
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/09/04/09/4FAECBBC00000578-6129329-image-a-3_1536051113590.jpg
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
only kicking off now and hate o'dowd already
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
i mean you have to do something in the evenings dont u
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
yerman is distractingly like charles dance at certain angles
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
god its golfinos that annoyed everyone then huh
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
Hey am I crazy or is there an ILXOR in Only Connect tonight? I recognized yr last name from Facebook and just literally shouted at the tv ILX! ILX! That’s Ailsa from ILX! :)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
Good job, Ailsa! Was fearing for you with that run of mixed up Shakespeare
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
aw missed it
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
otoh execute this man
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
*dies of embarrassment again*
― ailsa, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
No! It’s awesome :).
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
Well, that was an excellent display of how *not* to play a buzzer quiz. Paxo's "hurry up, we'll be here all night" was amusing.
― ailsa, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
"as you sometimes think you are", lol
― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
:D
― ailsa, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Two nail-biting quizzes this week. Very good value, everyone.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
ailsa you must tell us what it was actually like taking part in Only Connect, I would love to apply except I have no intellect or knowledge and nobody to piggyback on the intellect or knowledge of
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
She has done some of that telling, up thread.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
The food is really nice, everyone involved in making the show is super friendly, and because there's lots of hanging around in a small space for a few days, and all the contestants get put up in the same hotel, it's all very amiable.
It's terrifying when you start thinking every little piece of shit thought you would have in front of the telly is picked up by a mic so you (well, I) feel a bit less confident about voicing random ideas. Also, there's totally a delay in the missing vowels round when it's shown on telly to let the viewers think they're better than the teams.
― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Also, boxedjoy, you can apply on your own and they pair (well, team) you up with other single applicants. The Time Ladies from this year were three strangers until matched up by the production team like a quizzing Little Mix.
― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
I think the delay in the missing vowels round is to give the viewers a chance to answer
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
Noodle Vague of this parish was also on OC a few years ago. Oddly, I also online-knew the captain of the other team, who went on to win the series.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
that delay is what has made me think it would ever be worth applying then!
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Ah this was reasonably fun bar circumstances somewhat beyond my control
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
mike t-diva, I had thought NV had played the losing finalists rather than the winners (I know both captains of that series now, including ukulele dude who I remember causing a kerfuffle on here - I didn't know them then).
Anyway, small world.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Ah, you're right, ukulele dude was on the runner-up team.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
I'm totally calling him ukulele dude next time I see him.
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
missing vowels round is my main skill in life. can someone tell me how to make my millions from this thanksmy secondary skill is guessing answers to maths questions on UC. usually 1, 2 or 0, but I did correctly guess 137 the other week.
― kinder, Friday, 15 February 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
fucking hell, students can't even identify Radiohead these days
― Number None, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
No surprises
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
One of the OC teams last night didn't get New Order as the last in the sequence, having been given Stiff Kittens>Warsaw>Joy Division.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
No Tom Waits recognition smh
― Hey hey, the tipple’s weak sherry (fionnland), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
William Gibson, you idiots.
― koogs, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
Loved Basu’s halfhearted “Neon... Genesis Evangelion?”
On the other hand GLEN CAMPBELL
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
"KATE BUSH?" also.
― koogs, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
"Notorious BIG?"
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
and another coincidence - both OC and UC mentioned Judith beheading Holofernes, which i hadn't heard of before tonight.
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
it was a popular subject matter for Renaissance painters (most famously in the Gentelischi and Caravaggio versions)
― Number None, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
On OC they mis-identified a picture of David and Goliath and on UC it was a statue
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 07:11 (five years ago) link
How long does it take to say. James Brown?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link